Saturday, June 25, 2011
Sol Cinema
Friday, June 24, 2011
Water taxi
This is a real AP photograph taken in the wild
during a flood in India several years ago.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Italian Master Michelangelo Caravaggio 1571-1610
Young Sick Bacchus
1593
Likely a self-portrait of the artist when he
came to Rome (from Milan) and fell seriously ill.
From Wikipedia:
"Infamous while he lived, Caravaggio was forgotten almost immediately after his death, and it was only in the 20th century that his importance to the development of Western art was rediscovered. Despite this, his influence on the new Baroque style that eventually emerged from the ruins of Mannerism, was profound. It can be seen directly or indirectly in the work of Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Bernini, and Rembrandt, and artists in the following generation heavily under his influence were called the 'Caravaggisti' or 'Caravagesques', as well as Tenebrists or 'Tenebrosi' ('shadowists'). Andre Berne-Joffroy, Paul Valéry's secretary, said of him: 'What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting.'"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Tommy James and the Shondells
Heard "Crimson and Clover" on the radio this morning.
Sent me waaaay back.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Water DogTuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Greek painter El Greco 1541-1614
El Greco lived in Spain.
"El Greco" was a nickname meaning "the Greek."
Saturday, June 11, 2011
French painter Gustave Caillebotte 1848–1894
Oarsmen Rowing on the Yerres
1877
He died of a heart attack at age 45.
The guitar pool, Nashville
This pool is across the street from
the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.
Country music star Webb Pierce also built
a guitar-shaped swimming pool in the 1950s.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Machu Picchu, Peru
Machu Picchu (mah-shoo pee-shoo), Peru is described as "The lost city of the Incas," and dates to 1400-1550 AD. It is 8,000 feet above sea level. It was not directly conquered by the Spanish (they never found it), but it is believed smallpox reached the city anyway with devastating results. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is also one of the 100 Most Endangered Sites in the world because of tourism and destruction from the elements.Sunday, June 5, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944
Composition IV1911
Kandinsky was one of the pioneers
of Abstract Expressionism.
Friday, June 3, 2011
New nutritional guidelines
The U.S. government unveiled their new nutritional guidelines this week.
It's pretty self-explanatory.
I'm real bad on the fruits.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
British painter Sir Edwin Landseer 1802-1873
"Prince George's Favourites"
1835
Landseer was a painter chiefly of horses and dogs, but he was also a sculptor known for his lions in London's Trafalgar Square.
In the News
Police in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida are investigating how a .22 handgun ended up in the bottom of a box of toiletries given to a first-grade teacher by a student's grandmother.
High school kids across the UK were given a math test in which one of the questions was unanswerable. The test-givers were forced to contact colleges and universities to explain that there might be a problem with scores.
A restaurant owner in Chicago who hires ex-felons had to go to court to call his establishment Frank's Felons.
This is a good one. Police in Daytona arrested a man who was bicycling down the street at 2 a.m. carrying a 59-inch television balanced between his body and the handlebars.
A man wanted in Delaware was arrested after he used a loud voice to talk on the phone to brag about his escapades. Guests at the hotel where he was staying turned him in.
A Florida farmer decided to let his escaped bull "calm down" before trying to recapture it, but police thought otherwise, and employed eight deputies and a helicopter to corner the animal, sedate it, and tie it to a tree. He was presented with a fine but fought it all the way to the attorney general's office which today dropped all charges.
That's all for now folks. Remember, it's crazy out there!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
American West landscape painter Albert Bierstadt
"Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California"
1865
German-born, New York educated Bierstadt was made famous by his portraits of the unspoiled American West. He is often grouped with the Hudson River and the Rocky Mountain schools of landscape painting. He was prolific, producing thousands of landscapes, many of which survive.
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